Amazon Workers Across Germany Escalate Strike Action

Workers Seek to Gain Bargaining Advantage During Busiest Order Season of the Year

By

Sarah Sloat

Dec. 18, 2013 9:01 a.m. ET

FRANKFURT-—Workers at Amazon.com Inc.'s distribution centers in Germany have voted to extend a strike in a dispute over wages, seeking to gain a bargaining advantage during the busiest order season of the year.

The e-commerce giant has been hit by repeated strikes in Germany since this spring over wages and working conditions. In the latest move, workers at Amazon's largest logistics operation in Bad Hersfeld in central Germany, who...